Heroes of popular culture /
Heroes of popular culture /
Edited by Ray B. Browne, Marshall Fishwick, Michael T. Marsden.
- Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1972.
- 190 p. ill. ; 23 cm.
- Probings in popular culture .
Includes bibliographical references.
Fishwick, M. Prologue.--Fishwick, M. Heroic style in America.--MacFadden, F. The pop pantheon.--Coad, B. E. The Alger hero.--Piper, H. D. Dick Whittington and the middle class dream of success.--Mehlmann, M. Hero of the 30's--the tenant farmer.--Smith, Jr., L. T. Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and the changing image of the athletic hero.--O'Connor, G. Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?--Cummings, R. The Superbowl society.--Hopkins, A. Contemporary heroism--vitality in defeat.--Kane, P. Perry Mason: modern culture hero.--McLuhan, M. The popular hero and anti-hero.--Rodnitzky, J. A pacifist St. Joan--the odyssey of Joan Baez.--Lohof, B. The Bacharach phenomenon.--Stupple, D. A hero for the times.--Stevens, J. The dog as hero.--Browne, R. B. Epilogue.
0879720441 087972045X (pbk)
Popular culture--United States.
Heroes
Includes bibliographical references.
Fishwick, M. Prologue.--Fishwick, M. Heroic style in America.--MacFadden, F. The pop pantheon.--Coad, B. E. The Alger hero.--Piper, H. D. Dick Whittington and the middle class dream of success.--Mehlmann, M. Hero of the 30's--the tenant farmer.--Smith, Jr., L. T. Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and the changing image of the athletic hero.--O'Connor, G. Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?--Cummings, R. The Superbowl society.--Hopkins, A. Contemporary heroism--vitality in defeat.--Kane, P. Perry Mason: modern culture hero.--McLuhan, M. The popular hero and anti-hero.--Rodnitzky, J. A pacifist St. Joan--the odyssey of Joan Baez.--Lohof, B. The Bacharach phenomenon.--Stupple, D. A hero for the times.--Stevens, J. The dog as hero.--Browne, R. B. Epilogue.
0879720441 087972045X (pbk)
Popular culture--United States.
Heroes